~ The domestic life of AM Lees, Editor

Monthly Archives: October 2011

Made with home-made chicken stock, with orange zest added at the onion stage and orange juice (freshly squeezed) added at the liquidizer stage. Plenty of pepper and a tiny bit of salt (because there was no salt in the stock or the butter, and it needed a lift).

I thought it would taste of virtue, or faddishness, but it is actually extremely delicious. Sam and John liked it tool

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If you add a small packet of plasticene to your shopping order, the children will play nicely together with it while you clear up the egg and glass that got broken when they helped you put the shopping away.

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The next soup is carrot and leek soup. I have a large leek, but decide that the soup will be better with twice as much leek in, so it becomes leek and carrot soup. I use beef stock (from bones from the butcher) and the hand-blender (because the liquidizer jug is in the dishwasher). The handblender is not as good as the liquidizer, but it is good enough (and easier on the washing up).

It seems okay, and John tells me that I won’t like it, which is code for ‘I like this a lot but if I say you won’t like it, maybe you’ll believe me and I will get more.’

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The kind of ‘proper’ cooked Sunday dinner you have with guests. We made a simple and often-cooked menu, with little fuss. We invited Janet-from-music week, and Michal-her-husband, who live in Cumbria. We had planned to take them walking in Yorkshire, but, being Lancashire, it was raining. So we didn’t. We sat. We ate. We chatted. We played games with the children. We were mellow and relaxed. We don’t always remember to invite people round, but we should definitely do it more often.